"Contrary to what some people may think about me, I'm quite traditional in the family sense," Lady Gaga said in the the new "Inside The Outside" documentary, which premiered Thursday night on MTV. And believe it or not, she's completely serious.

How do we know? Well, because she's immensely proud of her Italian heritage, something she revealed during the show, when she took us through the basics of making a make a mean red sauce ... a staple of the traditional Italian Sunday dinner.

"[On] Sunday we make red gravy, tomato Pomodoro ... we boil the tomatoes and add the basil and the garlic and the salt and the pepper in these huge vats in the back yard, and then jar it for the year," she said. "And then on Sunday we put it in the pot, we spice it, let it simmer all day, and make sausage and meatballs, and pasta — we've...